Women in History: Eve

A new day, a new faithful woman to celebrate!! Let’s jump way back to the beginning of Genesis. Today, I’m excited to highlight the first daughter of the King, Eve. God created man, but then to finish His creation he created woman. He saved the best for last! Without Eve, God’s creation was not complete. It was no good for Adam to be alone, and God saw that he needed a companion. Just like Adam, Eve was created in God’s image & likeness. Eve introduces human relationships (maybe this is why women are often more relationship-oriented) companionship and friendship.

There are often comments about how women are the reason that the world is so discombobulated & jokes are made how everything wrong with the world is the women’s fault. But when we begin pointing fingers at who did what and start to play the blame game, we miss a key theme of the Bible that starts right in Genesis 3. The golden nugget is that even when we go against God, He comes after us. God does not shy away from our sin, He comes seeking us loudly & boldly.

Eve is a woman of many firsts. She was the first daughter of the King, she was the first wife, she was the first mother... the list can go on. Eve paved the way for women in society & if we condemn her instead of celebrating her, I’m afraid we’re only speaking further into the language of our culture.

My goal is not to diminish the effects of The Fall, but my goal is to change the way we see & talk about women in the Bible.

Genesis 2-3:

"20 But for Adam no suitable helper was found. 21 So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man’s ribs and then closed up the place with flesh. 22 Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.

23 The man said,

1. “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’ for she was taken out of man.”

24 That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh.

25 Adam and his wife were both naked, and they felt no shame.

The Fall (3)

1 Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?”

2 The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, 3 but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.’”

4 “You will not certainly die,” the serpent said to the woman. 5 “For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

6 When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it. 7 Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.

8 Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the Lord God among the trees of the garden. 9 But the Lord God called to the man, “Where are you?”

10 He answered, “I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid.”

11 And he said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”

12 The man said, “The woman you put here with me—she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”

13 Then the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?”

The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”